In recent years, the use of supercritical fluids (SCFs) for the synthesis and processing of nanomaterials has proven to be a rapid, direct, and clean approach to develop nanomaterials and nanocomposites. The application of supercritical fluid technology can result in products (and processes) that are cleaner, less expensive, and of higher quality than those that are produced using conventional ...

Recent studies have shown that it is possible to electrodeposit a range of materials, such as Cu, Ag and Ge, from various supercritical fluids, including hydrofluorocarbons and mixtures of CO2 with suitable co-solvents. In this perspective we discuss the relatively new field of electrodeposition from supercritical fluids. The perspective focuses on some of the underlying physical chemistry and ...

purpose: to compare body mass index (bmi) in patients with exfoliation syndrome (xfs) and a matched control group. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 84 patients with xfs (xfs group) and 84 persons without xfs (control group) were matched for sex and age and selected sequentially. bmi was compared in the two groups. patients with xfs with or without glaucoma and other complications were inclu...

polymer/clay nanocomposites are considered as a new subject of research in iran and the world. addition of a minimum amount of clay (2-5wt%) can improve the mechanical properties, enhance barrier properties and reduce flammability dramatically. polystyrene (ps) exhibits high strength, high modulus and excellent dimensional stability, but it has poor ductility, elongation, and flexural modulus. ...

A measuring method for the distribution behavior between supercritical carbon dioxide and water by a microchip was developed. A surface modification of the microchannel by dichlorodimethylsilane induced a spontaneous phase separation of the supercritical carbon dioxide and aqueous phases in the microchip. The maximum contact time of the aqueous phase to the supercritical carbon dioxide phase wa...

This study examined the effects of sub- and supercritical water pretreatments on the physicochemical properties of crab shell α-chitin and its enzymatic degradation to obtain N,N'-diacetylchitobiose (GlcNAc)2. Following sub- and supercritical water pretreatments, the protein in the crab shell was removed and the residue of crab shell contained α-chitin and CaCO3. Prolonged pretreatment led to α...

The present study is aimed at a detailed analysis of supercritical water structure based on the combination of experimental vibrational spectra as well as molecular modeling calculations of isolated water clusters. We propose an equilibrium cluster composition model where supercritical water is considered as an ideal mixture of small water clusters (n=1-3) at the chemical equilibrium and the vi...

Previous studies have shown that the exfoliation of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) is essential to obtain materials with good photocatalytic properties. However, in most works influence exfoliation...

Trichlorocarbanilide has widely been used in cosmetics and household products, but the extremely low solubility of trichlorocarbanilide in water constrains the development of water-based products. In order to enhance the bioavailability, trichlorocarbanilide were micronized using supercritical fluid. Supercritical carbon dioxide was selected due to relatively low critical temperature and the ra...

We describe a finite-dimensional reduction method to find solutions for a class of slightly supercritical elliptic problems. A suitable truncation argument allows us to work in the usual Sobolev space even in the presence of supercritical nonlinearities: we modify the supercritical term in such a way to have subcritical approximating problems; for these problems, the finite-dimensional reductio...